A Tribute to Gil Evans - Photos by R. Andrew Lepley

On Wednesday, October 27th, the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra
performed a tribute to Gil Evans. Special guests included Miles Evans (son of
Gil) on trumpet, performing selections from New Bottles Old Wine and Dave
Liebman on Sax performing the New York premier of his arrangement of Sketches
of Spain. The orchestra is under the direction of Justin Dicioccio. Lew
Soloff joined Miles Evans on stage for a selection and they traded solos. Lew
was one of Miles' teachers.